The previous chapter reviewed three traditions of genre studies, namely, the new rhetoric, systemic functional and ESP perspectives on genre. While new rhetoric genre analyses focus on the interrelation between text and context and SFL genre studies stress the linguistic analysis of text, ESP approaches to genre take an approach that is some way between these two. This chapter extends the discu...

this study aims at uncovering the effect(s) of genre-based instruction (gbi) on listening proficiency among iranian efl learners. moreover, it seeks to explore the relationship between effectiveness of gbi and listening proficiency. for this purpose, 68 efl learners in two different groups at zabol university were selected. group a included 30 participants (12 males and 18 females), and group b...

Klebsiella, a bacterial genre which includes species frequent involved in human pathology, produces a wide range of infections, sometimes severe and difficult to treat. Our retrospective study was made in the Clinical County Emergency Hospital of Braşov and included the Klebsiella strains isolated from various pathological products of the patients hospitalized in 2010. The study shows the wide ...

Abstract Genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. Genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. The present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their reading...

Previous studies have found a positive relationship between exposure to fiction and interpersonal sensitivity. However, it is unclear whether exposure to different genres of fiction may be differentially related to these outcomes for readers. The current study investigated the role of four fiction genres (i.e., Domestic Fiction, Romance, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, and Suspense/Thriller) in the re...

This paper presents the results of two studies that consider the effects of various pedagogical approaches in professional writing classes. The findings indicate that both a moves analysis approach and a chronotopic approach lead to cover letters that have significant lexico-grammatical differences from those written under a nongenre analysis approach. The findings also indicate that cover lett...

Abstract Genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. Genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. The present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their reading...

Genre provides a characterization of a document with respect to its form or functional trait. Genre is orthogonal to topic, rendering genre information a powerful filter technology for information seekers in digital libraries. However, an efficient means for genre classification is an open and controversially discussed issue. This paper gives an overview and presents new results related to auto...

Studies reveal a strong relationship between personality and preferred musical genre. Our study explored this relationship using a new methodology: genre dispersion among people’s mobile-phone music collections. By analyzing the download behaviours of genre-defined user subgroups, we investigated the following questions: (1) do genre-preferring subgroups show distinct patterns of genre consumpt...

We estimate the n-gram entropies of natural language texts in word-length representation and find that these are sensitive to text language and genre. We attribute this sensitivity to changes in the probability distribution of the lengths of single words and emphasize the crucial role of the uniformity of probabilities of having words with length between five and ten. Furthermore, comparison wi...